A secretive alliance Canadians never voted to join that requires this country to defend faraway lands and funnel ever greater resources to warfare is typically presented by the media and politicians as a tool of democracy. Yet, very often, pro-NATO propagandists frequently ignore the alliance’s ties to undemocratic regimes and its efforts to silence its critics.
Wasn’t it originally an alliance against the Warsaw Pact during the cold war?
It was a defensive alliance against communism and communist Russia during the cold war. I never really understood why NATO continued after the Soviet Union fell.
Ukraine had entered the conversation.